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Oscar-Claude Monet (/moʊˈneɪ/; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope. . . alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

Cope, Hesitation, Mouth, Paris, Rejection, Taken

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Continual, Deeply, Depression, Painting, Torture

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Happiness, Inspiration, Inspirational, Life, Nature, Source

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted. . . I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

Able, Exhausted, Hard, Relaxation, Sea, See

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Artist, Long, Paint, Painting, Young

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work. . . too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

Enough, Hard, Mediocrity, Satisfactory, Trouble, True

My heart is forever in Giverny.

Forever, Giverny, Heart, My Heart

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

Consolation, Gratitude, Thanks, Work

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Air, Bridge, Bridges, Found, House, Impossible

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Blame, Chance, Good, Weakness, Work

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Choice, Choices, Done, Point, Use

I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

Enough, Exhibited, Indifferent, Know, Painting, Perfect

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

Atmosphere, Crazy, Drive, Weather

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

Bend, Child, Children, Rule

I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.

Firsts, Foremost, Money, Possible, Send, Size

I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

Afraid, Landscape, Light, Moments, Use

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Bad, Day, Goodness, Hope, Next Day, One Day

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

Atmosphere, Light, Realizing, Things, Work

I insist upon 'doing it alone'. . . I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Alone, Impression, Impressions, Insist, My Own, Worked

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Eye, Nature, Opened, Same, Understood

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